Interdisciplinary appeal across Business and Management, Sociology, and Economics and Finance

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical
development.

Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating agencies, and the role of financial economics. Particular attention is given to financial crises, which are discussed in a special section, as well as to alternative forms of finance, including Islamic finance and the rise of China. The Handbook will be an indispensable tool for academics, researchers, and students of contemporary finance and economic sociology, and will serve as a reference point for the expanding international community of scholars researching these areas from a broadly-defined
sociological perspective.

Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Business, Finance, Economics, and Sociology.

Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and Alex Preda, Professor of Accounting, Accountability, and Financial Management, Department of Management, King's College London

Karin Knorr Cetina is George Wells Beadle Distinguished Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books and articles which have received several scholarly awards.

Alex Preda is Professor of Accounting, Accountability, and Financial Management, at King's College London

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